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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for June 2016

Crime and Justice

Serial’s Adnan gets a new trial

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 30, 2016, 3:43 PM Jun 30, 2016
7

If someone didn’t do a podcast, someone would still be shrugging their shoulders at the suggestion that maybe an innocent person was wrongly imprisoned. Read more →

NTSB: Pilot in fatal Minnesota plane crash was stoned

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 30, 2016, 12:47 PM Jun 30, 2016
11

Mark O. Schultz, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., a bank executive; and Steven J. Schultz, 51, of Brooklyn Center, a Medtronic employee, were killed in the 2014 crash in western Minnesota. Read more →

Politics · Sports

New battleground for the minimum wage fight: baseball

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 30, 2016, 10:56 AM Jun 30, 2016
62

Perhaps it figures that when a Republican and Democrat finally get together on bipartisan legislation in Congress, it intends to enrich fat cats and stiff people trying to make a living.
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Health

Man with ALS pens a note to himself

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 30, 2016, 9:24 AM Jun 30, 2016
1

Chris Rosati isn’t the first person with ALS to declare himself ‘the luckiest man on earth.’ Read more →

Crime and Justice

A MN mother prepares for her son’s return from prison

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 30, 2016, 7:34 AM Jun 30, 2016
15

‘You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child.’ Anyone who’s ever been a parent will recognize that as, perhaps, the most accurate statement on parenting ever uttered.
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Sports

Sano back in fielding form for Twins

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 30, 2016, 7:04 AM Jun 30, 2016
6

Miguel Sano uses his head to get an out in a minor league rehab assignment game. Read more →

Arts & Culture

A city slicker tries to get to Woodbury

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2016, 4:52 PM Jun 29, 2016
23

We curmudgeonly types live for those moments when a friend or colleague (sometimes they’re one and the same) tells us that we’re right. [Insert cliched reference to it not happening that often here].

The subject: The transportation backwater that is Minnesota.
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You Should Meet...

You Should Meet: Dick Bancroft

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2016, 1:19 PM Jun 29, 2016
4

If Dick Bancroft hadn’t come down from Saint Paul’s Summit Hill District as a young man, he might never have known the ‘invisible minority’ he champions so fiercely.

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Education

Minnesota Daily to cease daily publication

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2016, 12:58 PM Jun 29, 2016
12

A lot of journalists, including a few at a local radio network, have come through the Minnesota Daily, the University of Minnesota newspaper. It will now be printed only twice a week. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Education

Here’s to school librarians

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2016, 12:26 PM Jun 29, 2016
11

Here’s a reminder that people who don’t get anywhere near enough attention are often the ones who make the biggest difference.
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Crime and Justice

MN Court: Pimp’s teen prostitute ads not free speech

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2016, 10:48 AM Jun 29, 2016
8

A Minnesota man asserted that offering women for prostitution was similar to promoting consenting adults in a porn film and therefore protected speech under the First Amendment. Chief Justice Lorie Gildea said no. Read more →

About that motorcycle helmet

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2016, 7:30 AM Jun 29, 2016
38

A video from Woodbury makes a good case for a helmet law in Minnesota for motorcyclists. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Sports

Report: At U of M, ‘no snitching’ keeps investigators stymied

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 29, 2016, 6:25 AM Jun 29, 2016
47

The Star Tribune reports today that University of Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson has refused to cooperate with authorities investigating an alleged drug ring run by his team. Read more →

Economy

Workers told they should just be thankful they have a job

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 28, 2016, 3:21 PM Jun 28, 2016
37

A whiteboard notice telling Edmonton workers they could be easily replaced amid the recession in Alberta has drawn online fire. Read more →

Arts & Culture

A parody video from St. Paul gives Minneapolis a nudge

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 28, 2016, 1:28 PM Jun 28, 2016
36

Hi there, Minneapolis. St. Paul, here.

Say, did you know Adele is coming to this town and not your town?

The Visit St. Paul marketing team did. Read more →

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